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1) Callaghen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
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Callaghen was part Irish rogue and all soldier. For twenty years, his love of action and expert ability had carried him to every major battle around the world. Now , as a cavalry soldier in the Mojave desert, he needed every ounce of skill he possessed. This time he faced bad Indians, mountain outlaws,and grisly ambush. Could he outwit and outfight them in a search for the fabled underground river of gold? ... provided by dust jacket.
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Perley Gates westerns volume 2
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English
Description
Restless cowpoke Perley Gates wanted nothing more than to track down the grandfather who abandoned his family years ago. What he found was the crazy old sidewinder barely hanging on after a Sioux massacre. The old man's dying wish was to make things right for deserting his kin-by giving his strong-willed grandson Perley clues to the whereabouts of a buried fortune in gold. Finding his grandfather's legacy will set up his family for life. But it won't...
3) Mustang man
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Nolan Sackett is in a world of trouble. After shooting a man in self-defense, he runs for his life from a posse in hot pursuit. Always a fool for a lady in distress, he takes time out to rescue Sylvie from a gang of desperadoes. It isn't until she bushwhacks him with a shotgun and tries to poison him that he realizes she is up to on good. No sooner than he shoots his way out or her clutches, he meets Penelope -- a lass with a sad story. But in helping...
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A fur trapper by trade, Preacher can smell a bad deal from any direction no matter how well it's disguised. It wasn't always that way - he's got the scars to prove it. Now he's ready to pass on his deadly survival skills to a boy named Hawk, who just might be his son... Preacher and Hawk ride out of the Rockies and into St. Louis, loaded with furs. It's Hawk's first trip to civilization and the moment he lays eyes on the young Chessie Dayton he's...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Stripped of all he values in life, Roman Chantry takes up his prized Ferguson rifle and heads west--into an unknown land and an uncertain future. For an educated man, Chantry is surprisingly tough, For a civilized man, he is unexpectedly dangerous. But even he can't know the true extent of his courage until he draws the fire of a man who will do anything--kill anyone--for the glitter of gold.
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Series
First mountain man series volume 12
Language
English
Description
Preacher is hired to lead a Mexican brother and sister across the deadly Sangre de Cristo mountains to reclaim their family fortune of gold and silver, a job that plunges him into a web of betrayal, greed, and mystery where treasure hunters dodge his every move.
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He was to become a legend of the Southwest known as Judge Roy Bean; but here is the story of Roy's early years and the experiences that shaped him during his youth in Kentucky, from a hunt for a hidden treasure and being smitten by two deadly women to his time in the gun sights of California's most vicious bandido.
10) Valley of fire
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English
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"Micah Bishop doesn't believe in miracles--until a derringer-packing nun busts him out of jail. But it's not Christian charity that's driving Sister Genevieve--she wants Micah to take her to a place called the Valley of Fire, deep in the most lawless and perilous part of New Mexico Territory. It was here where an order of nuns met their Maker, and it's Sister Genevieve's mission to see that they are given a proper funeral. Or so she claims. Micah's...
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Series
Widowmaker Jones volume 04
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Card player extraordinaire Poker Alice knows when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em, and when to team up with master gunman Newt "Widowmaker" Jones. She's betting on Jones to protect her--and her money--on a treasure hunt in the California desert. Legend has it that a shipwreck is buried in the Salton sands. Some say it's a Spanish galleon that got stuck when the sea ran dry. Other says it's a Chinese junk full of pearls or a Viking ship filled with Aztec...
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English
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Heading into the Wild West seems an adventure to fifteen-year-old Justin Bodean, until the bullets and arrows begin to fly. Life or death often hangs by a ragged thread, as he soon comes to realize, and he must find if he has the grit to survive and the courage to think of others. The lure of a treasure of Civil War gold drives him, and he has a map. But he's not alone in wanting the hidden stash. Others, some who seem to be friends and some who are...
14) Mackenna's gold
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English
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With his dying breath, an ancient Apache warrior entrusts Glen Mackenna with the location of the lode called the Lost Canyon of Gold, but Mackenna tragically falls into the hands of the ruthless Francisco Lopez, called Pelon.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father's disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trail wise gypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-create their father's last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep the brothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot on the trail that led to whatever legacy...
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Lexile measure
690L
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English
Description
Owen Chantry arrives at his brother Clive's ranch to find him murdered and two squatters occupying his cabin. The unlikely trio--and a beautiful stranger--soon find themselves in a deadly feud with Clive's killers, the Mowatt gang, who return in search of Clive's rumored buried treasure.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
In one swift moment, a fall wiped away his memory. Now all he knew for certain was that someone wanted him dead -- and that he had better learn why. But everywhere he turned there seemed to be more questions -- or people too willing to hide the truth behind a smoke screen of lies. He had only the name he had been told was his own, his mysterious skill with a gun, and a link to a half million dollars' worth of buried gold as evidence of his past life....
18) Yuma gold
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Ben Ruby is stepping out of prison after an eight-year lock up to embark on a journey into dangerous territory. He must not only outwit an vengeful foe, but also outrun a breach in a Colorado River dam that threatens to flood an entire valley.
20) Mojave crossing
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"In Mojave Crossing, Louis L'Amour takes William Tell Sackett on a treacherous passage from the Arizona goldfields to the booming town of Los Angeles. Tell Sackett was no ladies' man, but he could spot trouble easily enough. And Dorinda Robiseau was the kind of trouble he wanted to avoid at any time--even more so when he had thirty pounds of gold in his saddlebags and a long way to travel. But when she begged him for safe passage to Los Angeles, Sackett...
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